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THE MARKET HOUSE

THE MARKET HOUSE, MARKET PLACE

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1056254
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1974
List Entry Name:: THE MARKET HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE MARKET HOUSE, MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1056254
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1974
List Entry Name:: THE MARKET HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE MARKET HOUSE, MARKET PLACE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE MARKET HOUSE, MARKET PLACE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Castle Cary
National Grid Reference:: ST6408832379

Details

ST6432 6/87

CASTLE CARY CP MARKET PLACE (West side)

The Market House

4.2.74

GV II*

Market house with other public buildings. 1855, by F.C. Penrose. Cary stone cut and squared, with Doulting stone dressings; Delabole slate roof between stepped coped gables crowned with small pinnacles; central lead-covered spirelet with clock-faces set diagonally onto ridge. In a Flemish style. 'L'-plan; 3 storeys, 7-bay main facade. Open colonnade to ground floor, with circular non-classical columns carrying chamfered 3-centred arches; then string courses to a panelled section with pointed arohed recesses having alternately circular and triangular leaded windows; to upper storey in bays 2, 4 and 6 are hollow-chamfered mullioned windows with three 4-centre-arched lights under flat heads without labels. North- east elevation has two open pointed arches at ground floor; then two pairs of small rectangular windows divided by a central shaft carrying a 1+2+1 light oriel window at second floor level having chamfered mullions and transomes, and stepped stone roof with a gable vent over. South-west elevation has an end gable, featuring staircase windows, and a 3-bay extension to the rear to match, adjusted to suit the slope of the hill alongside. Rear elevation has a gabled projection with segmental arched casements at ground floor level, a single and a 2-light rectangular window to first floor with casements, and similar windows to second floor but with rectangular leaded-pane lights, gable vent above: sundry later extensions to fill in the angle including a covered walkway and fire escape stairway. Erected by the Market House Company to replace the former house of 1616, possibly reusing the old columns, in anticipation of increased trade after the projected arrival of the railway in 1856. The undercroft, still enclosed by wrot iron railings, was for the market, particularly for corn, and at the rear were several cells; above were reading and news rooms and facilities for musical entertainments (McGarvie M, Castle Cary; Avalon Industries, 1980).

Listing NGR: ST6408832379

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 262020
Legacy System:: LBS

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McGarvie, M , Castle Cary Avalon Industries, (1980)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.